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Google's sexism

sample032 — Tue, 15 May 2007 17:48:51 PDT

@fatbastard: Google has a heuristic based on statistics. Natural language search doesn't work yet.

It's almost like you're responding to the current state of first person shooter AIs by saying that when loaded into a mech, they don't work well. Take these things out of the sandbox they usually play in and they'll fail.

sample032

Google's sexism

fatbastard — Tue, 15 May 2007 16:02:53 PDT

Just goes to show that Google hasn't cracked the search nut like most pundits believe. A natural language search engine wouldn't react in this manner.

fatbastard

Google's sexism

sample032 — Tue, 15 May 2007 15:43:27 PDT

This brings up the MIT sexism question again: if men do in fact invent more things, is it sexist to suggest that "she invents" is a typo?

And of course, the irony: feminists are critical of stereotypes and statistics that they women are bad at math, but instead of proving this WITH statistics, they invoke equality.

sample032

Google's sexism

ROIpositive — Tue, 15 May 2007 14:57:36 PDT

"It's the world that's sexist; we just index it."

Its actually a serious argument. To do otherwise is a slippery slope, is it not? Solving for content problems by tweaking the search engine/index is just putting lipstick on a pig.

ROIpositive